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Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight
anomalous cohort writes "CrunchGear has an interesting interview with the Director of Inflight Entertainment for the airline Virgin America, who discusses their adoption of Linux for the passenger's seat back computers. 'The ability to compose a music-video playlist is pretty cool and on the horizon. The READ section is also awesome in that it takes what is typically a bunch of wasted trees (excess newspapers, periodicals) and allows us to be more environmentally friendly and timely with things like news/event info/sports/entertainment etc.'"
Wheareas Arab airlines use 72 virgins...
Why do articles like this always remind of those people who used to write into Amiga Format saying they saw an Amiga in some movie or television show?
"It even had the A570 expansion next to it, but the machine itself was the A1200 which is incompatible! It was AWESOME!"
But we already have people associating Linux with virgins. Hardly a contribution.br
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/9/linux_laid.html
Read it and weep bitter, bitter tears of envy!
On a finnair flight from Helsinki to Tokyo last summer they appeared to be running linux on the personal touch-screen devices too. It worked great and it was good fun watching a few flicks on it.
:)
However, about an hour or two before the end of the flight they started rebooting over and over again - they were running some red hat variant on 266MHz devices if memory serves me right. The screens up at the end of the walkways rebooted at that time too, but seemed to be running windows, cant remember what variant though.
After ten minutes of rebooting I was secretly hoping the stewardesses would make an announcement to ask if there was a systems engineer on the plane...